Gudmundur Vidir Helgason, a friend, co-worker and one of the founders of RORUM ehf. has passed away. Gudmundur Vidir was both a well-regarded scientist and a trusted colleague, and he leaves behind many reports and articles on zoology and natural history of Iceland. We at RORUM offer our deepest condolences to the family of Gudmundur Vidir.
Rorum inspected the seashore by Thorlakshöfn regarding possible influences from hatchery drainage. More about the project and pictures from the field trip can be seen here.
Today (20. Mars 2019) the Icelandic newspaper Fréttablaðið published an special paper on Aquaculture and the third annual Aqua-Ice conference. A special interview with Thorleifur Eiriksson, director at Rorum, can be read there (in Icelandic).
Thorleifur Agustsson (Norce) and Thorleifur Eiriksson (Rorum) puplished an article, "Fish restocking - Conservation or farming?". The article has been puplished in Morgunblaðið (27. feb. 2019. p:21) and Fiskeldisblaðið (27. feb. 2019) in icelandic.
Eva Dogg Johannesdottir got to use Rorums reaserch lab as well as advise from Rorums workers. her project is "Sea-lice on wild salmonids in the southern region of Westfjords". We used the opertunity to take a few pictures.
Gunnar Steinn Jonsson at Rorum published an article about Fredric K. Reinsch, his limnological studies in Iceland and portable field microscope, Heimdal.
The article was published in Náttúrufræðingurinn (vol. 88. 3.-4. edt. 2018).
Thorleifur Agustsson at Norce research in Norway and Thorleifur Eiriksson at Rorum wrote an article about fish farming and fish restocking.
The article was published in the following newspapers BB (1. feb 2019), Fiskeldisblaðinu (2. feb. 2019), Vikudagur (7. feb 2019) og Morgunblaðið (7. feb 2019).
PDF version of the article in Icelandic is accessible below.
Rorum had two talks in an Seminar on the impacts on aquaculture in Eyjafjordur on the 19th of January. The speakers where Anna Gudrun Edvardsdottir and Thorleifur Eiriksson.
The algal species composition in Lake Þingvallavatn is under revision. New data templates with pictures of 56 phytoplankton species in the lake are published in this report, and a similar revision is planned for the epilithic diatom list that were made in 1980 and published in 1992.
Recently, there has been a collaboration between Vistir, RORUM and Ísfell, which was run by VISTUM. The project manager was Magnús Þór Bjarnason. The project was about checking whether small mussels and other disposed items cleaned of sea-cages could be used for value creation. Operations and cost-effectiveness were assessed on the potential utilization of these raw materials and the results were presented in the final report.
Vistum 2018 001 (In Icelandic)
